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The warning shots fired by the IMF and BIS should be a wake-up call to global leaders to get public debt under control.

This paper attempts to explain three broad trends that underpinned the relationship between the state, market, and healthcare: first, the state is moving away from its health provider role to a regulator role, which involves shifting the resources, authority, and responsibility to diverse public and private actors. Second, in the name of the pandemic, the state has opened up

LA WATCHDOG--Despite the infusion of $1.35 billion from the Federal government, the City of Los Angeles still has a Structural Deficit that it is unwilling to attack.     According the Four Year Budget Outlook, the City is projecting a budget surplus of $309 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.  But when this projection is adjusted for increases from new labor agreements with the police, firefighters, and civilian employees (an estimated $220 million) and lower revenues based on more realistic growth rates (an estimated $400 million), the surplus turns into a $300 million deficit.  The ...

LA WATCHDOG--Mayor Eric Garcetti is “ecstatic” that the City of Los Angeles is expected to receive $1.35 billion from Washington under the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.  The members of the City Council are also happy campers because they will not have to rely on layoffs to balance the budget.  But in reality, there is very little, if anything, left over for pet projects and new initiatives after the City allocates this windfall in a fiscally prudent manner.  The  first order of business is to address this year’s budget.  This includes funding the remaining $75 million budget...

this until the the cotton's picked and the beans and the kernels are counted. smart phones make calls, send e-mails and now you can set them to stun. it is going too far? hello, everyone, i'm poppy harlow in tonight for don lemon. let's get you up to speed on the day r day's biggest stories. in syria, a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he's on the side of the rebel uprising. he was syria's ambassador to iraq, and he's the highest ranking diplomat to defect. he says he can't be part of a dictatorship any longer. you'll hear him his in his own words in j...